'Benghazi: The Definitive Report' In 2012, a secret war across North Africa was well underway.

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White House, with concurrence by the FBI and Justice Department, held off on asking for Petraeus’ resignation until after the election.

Who authorized the Bureau to pore over all his email communication?

‘Whenever the FBI opens an investigation of a senior official they have to make notification of that, especially if there is an intelligence
concern. It is hard to believe the White House did not know

“Now I don’t know if a lot of you heard this, but the CIA annex had actually had taken a couple of Libya militia members prisoner. And they think
that the attack on the consulate was an effort to try to get these prisoners back. So that’s still being vetted.”
Paula Broadwell

OH wait, were the rumors that the so called Benghazi consulate was a black site true, was she dropping hints?

sandf Stormdancer
well this sheds a little light on Hillary's testimony and its splendiferious oddities too..

she owns this smiley
apparantly this is in the opening of her benghazi testimony

Any clear-eyed examination of this matter must begin with this sobering fact: Since 1988, there have been 19 Accountability Review Boards
investigating attacks on American diplomats and their facilities. Benghazi joins a long list of tragedies, for our Department and for other agencies:
hostages taken in Tehran in 1979, our embassy and Marine barracks bombed in Beirut in 1983, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, our embassies in
East Africa in 1998, consulate staff murdered in Jeddah in 2004, the Khost attack in 2009, and too many others. Of course, the list of attacks foiled,
crises averted, and lives saved is even longer. We should never forget that our security professionals get it right 99 percent of the time, against
difficult odds all over the world. That’s why, like my predecessors, I trust them with my life.

The current policy traces its roots to the administration of former President Bill Clinton. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, however,
what had been a limited program expanded dramatically, with some experts estimating that 150 foreign nationals have been victims of rendition in the
last few years alone.

A limited program that can trace itself back to the CIAs involvement in Vietnam, and Laos.

I think learning the real truth to this died with Obama's re-election. The very term Special Prosecutor seems no longer to exist and without that,
there is little chance a thing like Iran/Contra would have been run to ground how it needed to be, for an example from the other side of politics.
That one didn't actually have a consulate facility being over-run and an Ambassador of all people for US civilian rank, killed in the event.

It's amazing to me that it's happened and been allowed to all but fade from the public awareness for other things, so quickly.

In terms of Africa though, numerous stories have reported the U.S. and other powers moving back into the Continent in a way that had been going the
other direction for decades. Interesting how that's been working....but, then, not THAT interesting. Mineral wealth and other things matter more
there than Oil, in my opinion. Something else matters even more though and Libya had recently confirmed sitting on a ton of it...

I believe this adds another dimension and whole new layer of meaning to what I think we see pieces of out here in the public. The documents in the
public record are clear about the security situation being immediate for threats to the compound in the months leading up to that night though.
'Something big is still missing for a piece to make the puzzle have any logic....

the strong suit of the book is the contention that Brennan's operations authorized by Obama caused a retaliation by Ansar al-Sharia, which caught
the CIA off guard. "They had no idea that Special Operations missions would be kicking the hornets' nest in Libya and therefore could not prepare
for the fallout that would result."

They also assert that the forced resignation of CIA Director David Petraeus was a palace coup, and that John Brennan wanted to become Director of
Central Intelligence. larouchepac.com...
"It is an open secret in Washington, D.C, that John Brennan is a world-class windbag.... He has long had his eye on becoming the Director of Central
Intelligence or Director of National Intelligence."

Their conclusion is that John Brennan should be reined in or fired, but if what they say is true, and there is good reason to believe it is, what they
document must be thoroughly probed by the U.S. Congress, and if Barack Obama authorized Brennan's actions, then Barack Obama is impeachable for
authorizing the "private war" carried out by Brennan in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Details of Gaddafi's letters were released by the Libyan government spokesman at a news conference in Tripoli.

Defending his decision to attack rebel cities, Gaddafi told Obama, "Al Qaeda is an armed organisation, passing through Algeria, Mauritania and Mali.
What would you do if you found them controlling American cities with the power of weapons? What would you do, so I can follow your example." www.abovetopsecret.com...
Trying to strike a personal note, Gaddafi prefaced his letter saying, "To our son, his excellency, Mr Baracka Hussein Obama. I have said to you
before, that even if Libya and the United States of America enter into a war, god forbid, you will always remain a son. Your picture will not be
changed."

Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., is calling on the Obama administration to explain why the survivors of last year's deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, were
reportedly asked to sign non-disclosure agreements that prevent them from talking about the attack.

In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and CIA Director John Brennan, Wolf said his office has received reports
that some survivors of the attack were asked to sign the confidentiality agreement as recently as this summer.

"If these reports are accurate, it would raise serious questions about additional restrictions the State Department has placed on those with
knowledge of the Benghazi attacks," Wolf said in the letter. "I also worry about the impact of any [non-disclosure agreements] on congressional
efforts to understand fully what happened that night and why the agency responded as it did."

"On Tuesday I raised the question of why none of the Benghazi survivors, whether State Department, CIA, or private security contract employees
have testified publicly before Congress," said Wolf.

"According to trusted sources that have contacted my office, many if not all of the survivors of the Benghazi attacks along with others at the
Department of Defense, the CIA have been asked or directed to sign additional non-disclosure agreements about their involvement in the Benghazi
attacks. Some of these new NDAs, as they call them, I have been told were signed as recently as this summer." www.weeklystandard.com...
Wolf continued: "It is worth noting that the Marine Corps Times yesterday reported that the Marine colonel whose task force was responsible for
special operations in northern and western Africa at the time of the attack is still on active duty despite claims that he retired. And therefore
could not be forced to testify before Congress.

"If these reports are accurate, this would be a stunning revelation to any member of Congress, any member of Congress that finds this out and also
more importantly to the American people. It also raises serious concerns about the priority of the administration's efforts to silence those with
knowledge of the Benghazi attack in response.

Congress will hear from Africa special forces commander on Benghazi attack

House Republicans will hear behind closed doors from a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was responsible for special forces in Africa on the
night of last year’s deadly terror attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, despite what some GOP members are saying was an effort by
the Pentagon to hide him.

This came after Jake Tapper at CNN broke the news today that there were “dozens” of CIA operatives on the ground in Benghazi on 9-11 when the
consulate came under attack and the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret.

Gowdy told Greta the Obama Administration is hiding the survivors, dispersing them around the country, AND changing their names. www.thegatewaypundit.com...
ir-names-video/
“Including changing names, creating aliases. Stop and think what things are most calculated to get at the truth? Talk to people with first-hand
knowledge. What creates the appearance and perhaps the reality of a cover-up? Not letting us talk with people who have the most amount of information,
dispersing them around the country and changing their names.”

And, at the same time Obama is hiding the survivors around the country he’s calling Benghazi a ‘phony’ scandal.

President Barack Obama is rapidly expanding the borders of the undeclared wars he’s waging in the name of the United States.
In a study entitled “How Many Wars Is the U.S. Fighting Today?” Harvard professor Linda Bilmes and Michael Intriligator of UCLA estimate that the
United States government is fighting at least five “unannounced and undeclared” wars around the world.

The paper reports that these unconstitutional combat operations represent a “tradition of many previous covert US military incursions,” such as
those carried out in past decades in Chile, Cuba, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and others. With the advancement in drone technology, the government is able
to be “involved in more conflicts worldwide.”

And the evidence is that the Obama administration is taking full advantage of those capabilities. The paper reported: www.hks.harvard.edu...
Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord,
with significant military facilities in nations around the world, and with a significant presence in Bahrain, Djibouti, Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Kyrgyzstan, in addition to long-established bases in Germany, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.

That list, of course, does not include the less well defined “military presence” in Colombia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Oman,
Pakistan, the Philippines, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Add to that the following summary of the combat operations published by Global Research:

Many smaller US military operations in Africa and the Middle East are increasingly utilizing drones. Former US Africa Command (AFRICOM) commander
General Carter Ham stated in February that his forces required a 15-fold increase in surveillance and reconnaissance capacities for the continent. US
Air Force drones have already been flying sorties across North Africa, and the US already operates drone bases in Djibouti, Ethiopia and the
Seychelles.

As part of “Operation Nomad Shadow,” a secret US military surveillance program, the US military is currently launching drones from the Incirlik
air base in Turkey to provide surveillance for the Turkish military in its campaign against the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The drones
fly into northern Iraq to gather data, which is then transmitted to a “fusion cell” in Ankara for analysis.

CIA 'running arms smuggling team in Benghazi when consulate was attacked'
The CIA has been subjecting operatives to monthly polygraph tests in an attempt to suppress details of a US arms smuggling operation in Benghazi that
was ongoing when its ambassador was killed by a mob in the city last year, according to reports.

Sources said that more Americans were hurt in the assault spearheaded by suspected Islamic radicals than had been previously reported. CIA chiefs were
actively working to ensure the real nature of its operations in the city did not get out.

So only the losses suffered by the State Department in the city had been reported to Congress.

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The television network said that a CIA team was working in an annex near the consulate on a project to supply missiles from Libyan armouries to Syrian
rebels.

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